A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas.A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas.A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 121 wins & 249 nominations total
Youn Yuh-jung
- Soonja
- (as Yuh-jung Youn)
Jacob M Wade
- Johnnie
- (as Jacob Wade)
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- Writer
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The Rise of Steven Yeun
The Rise of Steven Yeun
"The Walking Dead" favorite Steven Yeun has recently had a breakthrough in critically-acclaimed films like Okja, Burning, and more recently he plays an immigrant adjusting to American life with his family in Minari. "No Small Parts" takes a look at his acting career.
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- TriviaWriter and director Lee Isaac Chung wrote in the Los Angeles Times about how he came to write Minari. He was about to start teaching full time for the sake of his family and thought he would write one final script in the few months before the job began. Desperate for inspiration, he closed his eyes at his regular coffee shop and the words "Willa Cather" rang in his ears. Looking her up, he saw she was a novelist who wrote about life on the Great Plains, and he fell in love with her novel "My Antonia". He learned that Cather initially imitated famous novelists who wrote about city life, thinking her own rural experience wouldn't be accepted. She felt unfulfilled and then wrote successful rural stories that were true to herself. She said, "Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember." Reflecting on this, Chung said, "I wondered if the voice was leading me to these words, so that I would begin to trust in my own. As an exercise, I devoted an afternoon to writing my memories of childhood. I remembered our family's arrival at a single-wide trailer on an Ozark meadow and my mother's shock at learning that this would be our new home. I recalled the smell of freshly plowed soil and the way the color of it pleased my father. I remembered the creek where I threw rocks at snakes while my grandmother planted a Korean vegetable that grew without effort. With each memory, I saw my life anew, as though the clouds had shifted over a field I had seen every day. After writing 80 memories, I sketched a narrative arc with themes about family, failure and rebirth. That's how I got the idea to write 'Minari'; it began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember."
- GoofsModern cars are visible in one shot as the family drives through town.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Best Movies of 2020 (2020)
- SoundtracksTurn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Written by Helen Howarth Lemmel
Performed by and Courtesy of Bundang Woori Church
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Good Effort, Average Movie
A Korean family of 4 moving to rural Arkansas to fulfil the wish of the stubborn father to becoming a farmer during the 80's.
The film is beautifully made with good acting from most of the actors, young and old.
I suppose there's only so much autobiographical story to tell about the farmer father and the struggling mother so the large portion of the film focuses on the two children and their visiting maternal grandmother.
A well executed two hour family movie but failed to leave much impression to this viewer.
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- filmfan46
- Mar 23, 2021
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- Also known as
- Khát Vọng Đổi Đời
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Box office
- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,110,580
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $193,460
- Feb 14, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $15,312,445
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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